The same day at lunch break when I met up with Sally I told her what happened. I wanted to tell her as soon as saw her this morning but unfortunately her dad was driving the car. When she had wrapped her head around the story, she was grinning like a mad person. She told me it was the best thing that had happened to me this year. Then I debated with her that better things had happened but she wouldn’t budge from her point. She insisted I should go meet him and hear him out at least.
When I got to the field, he jogged towards me leaving his friends behind. His friends were staring at me in disbelief, as if I was a new specimen in the zoo.
As he walked the lat steps to reach me, he grabbed my hand and dragged me along with him.
“Urghhhh! Where are we going?”
“To show you who she is.”
“Who is ‘who’?” I asked not getting what he said.
And then he stopped walking and still holding my hand, pointed to the cheerleading group at a distance. But, before anyone saw us pointing them out, I withdrew my hand from his grasp.
“Which one?” I questioned him.
“Uhhh…there. Alicia.”
“Alicia? Alicia Grace? My cousin Alicia Grace?”My voice grew louder with every question.
It was my turn to wear the look of disbelief.
“Why do you want to date her? You guys are totally different.”
“Now it’s not like the first time we would do that. She wanted to keep it a secret and so we did. Only some of our friends knew about it.”
“You are the ‘junior guy’? But she is dating someone else now. Why can’t you let her be?”
Alicia and I were cousins by birth but friends by choice. Despite being a year older than me, we shared almost everything. Just months back she told me about this ‘junior guy’ she was seeing. She told me it wasn’t much of a deal. And few days back she told me it was over and was dating Mathew Kestner.
“I love her, ok?” he snapped at me. “Isn’t it a reason good enough.”
I stared at him speechless. The way he said those words I can’t even describe. It was a powerful display of greatest emotion on earth. I never saw a guy feel so strongly for someone, well, except in movies. Then a strange surge took over me and I wanted to help him.
“Ok. I will help you.”
He gave me a genuine smile. “Now, let’s drop you home.”
Then he walked back the way we came and I followed him.
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The Only Exception
Teen FictionForeword:- Is it really possible "for eternity" type of love to really happen to someone? How long is it actually possible to love someone? Well, is'nt love just about loving the person enough to make them feel special and rare? As rare as a green d...
